john meekins
John Meekins is a former newspaper reporter and always an adventurer. He has reported and written about news events over much of the United States and beyond. He covered the Vietnam War in Vietnam. He has a special interest in history and is currently working on a history of the 15th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment from the Civil War.
He was born in Oklahoma, raised in New Mexico and also has lived in New Hampshire, Indiana, Ohio--and Germany.
Blogs by this Author
One of those amazing, but trues story about the Lima Company Memorial
- By john meekins
- Published 11/13/2008
The Lima Company Memorial, a series of life-size paintings of US Marines killed in Iraq in the summer of 2005 by Columbus, Ohio artist Anita Miller, has only been on public exhibit since Memorial Day ...
What America Must do to Regain Its Competitiveness in World Markets
- By john meekins
- Published 09/12/2008
“Winner Take All, How Competitive Shapes the Fate of Nations" by Richard J. Elkus, Jr. is not just a great book to read, it is an important book for the future of the United StatesIt is importa...
A true story of El Dorado
- By john meekins
- Published 08/4/2008
There is a link on UTube to a song sung by George Alexander from the movie El Dorado. The movie starred John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. The song is of the same name as the movie. Anyway, the man has ...
Tour of 1st Missouri Volunteer Mounted Rifles' Battlefields in the Mexican War!
- By john meekins
- Published 02/16/2008
Summertime tour of the Mexican War battlefields of the 1st Missouri Volunteer Mounted Rifles—planned this summer 2008.
Start just south of Las Cruces, New Mexico at the approximate site of th...
Soldier killed in Vietnam War...and almost no one cares
- By john meekins
- Published 02/8/2008
The assignment sounded simple enough: “Find out what the medals were.”It came from the copy editor’s who’d handled an obituary I’d written about a New Hampshire soldier...
Negro town in Ohio, 1812? Black bugler for the Comanches!
- By john meekins
- Published 01/31/2008
Imagine that? Yes, it is hard to imagine since much of Ohio was a wilderness in 1812, but a diary I am reading by a soldier of the American War of 1812 tells of coming to just such a town. Or, maybe i...
Lands of Giants? Land of "little people"
- By john meekins
- Published 01/29/2008
People 15 feet tall? People 2 feet tall?Doesn’t sound possible.Yet, there are at least two stories of the giants, both based on bones. There are also at least three stories of little, but very...
Lands of Giants? Land of "little people"
- By john meekins
- Published 01/29/2008
People 15 feet tall? People 2 feet tall?Doesn’t sound possible.Yet, there are at least two stories of the giants, both based on bones. There are also at least three stories of little, but very...
She burned to death!
- By john meekins
- Published 01/21/2008
My mother-in-law's night gown caught on fire Saturday morning as she fixed breakfast. Looking at the site where the flames engulfed her, the only thing remaining is a grim scattering of ashes. Nothing...
Burned almost to death
- By john meekins
- Published 01/20/2008
I am at this moment at a hospital in Tampa, Florida where my mother-in-law is expected to die any time--because of second and third degree burns over more than half her body.What happened?She was cook...
Art, music honor fallen U.S. Marines of Lima Company
- By john meekins
- Published 01/14/2008
Two interesting projects underway in Ohio are the life-size paintings of 22 US Marines and a Navy Corpsman killed Iraq in2005 that will soon go on display at the Ohio State House in Columbus, and sepa...
New Hampshire results only surprise the reporters!
- By john meekins
- Published 01/9/2008
The lead paragraph in my morning newspaper told of how “SURPRISED” the country was to hear U.S. Sen. Hilary Clinton had won the New Hampshire primary election—because all the polls h...
What ever happened to the Congressional Medal of Honor Winners Names?
- By john meekins
- Published 12/28/2007
Congressional Medal of Honor, Republic of South Vietnam
Does anyone out there know what happened to the Congressional Medal of Honor names that were put on the outside walls to the two-story buildi...